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Thank you all again for your help looking for a ship. I had a feeling that somewhere I had a kit of a paddle steamer. Some years ago I built the Kit of the waterfront in Gdansk and at the time, bought a couple of ships.
I found the kit and when looking into the background of the ship, found it couldn't be further from what I wanted! This particular ship sailed the Danube between Linz and Passau and sadly was taken out of service in 1970.
Anyway, I had my fingers "ship shape" so "steamed ahead" with the kit ;-)
It looks quite an old kit from Schreiber, but was quite easy to put together and made a change from all the straight lines of buildings. There are only two change from the kit and they are the flags at each end and I opened up the "air intakes". I used the original masts but made new "ropes" from cotton and glue then bent them to give a better idea of movement to the flags.
Despite being the wrong ship, I enjoyed making it and it will sort of remind me of our holiday.
Cheers
Mike
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